Trump, Instagram and Facebook

Instagram, Facebook users say their accounts automatically followed Trump, Vance and Melania after the inauguration. Here's what we know.
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president on Monday, some Instagram and Facebook users started noticing that their accounts were suddenly following Pages associated with the new president, First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Liberal Instagram, Facebook users panic over perceived auto-follow of President Trump
The lefty account holders were left dumbfounded when posts from the country’s newly sworn-in leaders appeared on their feeds despite never hitting follow for either Trump or Vance.
Are Instagram Users Being Forced to Auto-Follow Trump and Vance?
A couple of days after Trump's second inauguration, which saw him become the first convicted felon sworn in as President of the United States, some Instagram users are claiming their accounts have automatically followed Trump and his Vice President, JD Vance.
Instagram May Have Forced You To Follow Trump & JD Vance
Among those is popstar Gracie Abrams, who took to Instagram to reassure her followers. “I had t unfollow @vp and @potus three separate times today because [Meta] kept automatically refollowing the accounts,” she said on Instagram stories. “How curious! Had to block them in order to make sure I am nowhere near that.”
Meta users complain of auto-following Donald Trump or JD Vance
The followers for both accounts rapidly increased after Mr Trump acquired the @POTUS Instagram handle and Mr Vance was assigned the @VP handle. Many people have complained on social media that they never followed the politicians in the first place.
Wait, is Instagram auto-following Trump now he’s President? Here’s a likely explanation
Demi Lovato shared to her Instagram story that she claims to have unfollowed JD Vance on the VP US government official account twice and the platform won’t let her do it, calling it ‘shady business’. Cara Delevingne also posted a screenshot to her story claiming that it’s ‘happening to me’. So what is actually going on?
Auto-followed Trump or Vance? Likely because you previously liked POTUS, VP accounts
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Some Meta users said that they believed they were forced to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance’s pages, and that Instagram was blocking searches for the #democrat hashtag.
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